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The Emperor Has No Clue
Why the USA will always suffer most from every epidemic that comes around
US citizens are told from infancy that they live in “the greatest country in the world.” It’s the same sort of propaganda that citizens of the Soviet Union were fed for decades. Every country likes to airbrush the unpleasant parts of its history, create a rousing national narrative, and puff itself up a bit. But the USA is the only OECD nation to indulge in the kinds of nonsense typically seen in tyrannies. As a result, US citizens are profoundly ignorant of the fact that the USA is, in reality, a rather backward nation in most areas of life.
A quick summary will suffice to demonstrate the fact: the USA scores a D for the state of its public infrastructure (roads, bridges, drains, electricity supply); the USA appears far down the PISA table for educational achievement; the USA has the world’s most expensive health care system yet among the worst outcomes; the USA suffers more gun violence than most war zones; more people are financially insecure than in any other OECD nation; and the USA has the highest number of homeless people per capita in the Western world.
So much for “the greatest nation on Earth.”
The Soviet Union stumbled along for decades during which rhetoric and reality were so badly matched that citizens became thoroughly disillusioned…
